Video: Designing a hospital look

This is how hospitals look, isn't it? Dark, dramatic, lots of contrasting colored lighting. Well, actually no, they don't look anything like this, this is a treated shot. A hospital actually looks like this. Lots of the colors quite bright, often they've got friendly, warm colors on the walls. But why do we constantly see hospitals portrayed with these green colors, especially in the walls or on the bed linen. Well, it might be because we're used to seeing these sort of colors in hospital on the gowns. Where you've got lots of bluey green or blue gowns worn by either the patients or the surgeons.

Watch the Online Video Course The Art of Color Correction: Color Grading for Locations and Times of Day

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Color is a powerful signal in video; it can subtly project emotion, mood, time of day, and location. Learn to manipulate these visual elements in a variety of shots, from interior spaces to outside landscapes, with color grading. Filmmaker, colorist, and experienced editor Simon Walker shows how to simulate a light source and different types of light, and choose an evocative color for your footage to tell the story of a particular location. Plus, learn techniques to change the time of day, the type of room, and the overall mood of a location.

Simon works with Adobe Premiere Pro and the Magic Bullet Colorista II and Looks plugins, but these lessons can be applied to any color correction workflow.

Topics include:

How our eyes see color

What colors tell the audience

Making sure color is consistent

Applying adjustments in the correct order

Understanding how warm and cool colors frame emotion differently

Isolating and adjusting skies

Changing the time of day with color

Designing interiors like an office, a hospital, or an interrogation room

Designing a hospital look

This is how hospitals look, isn't it? Dark, dramatic, lots of contrastingcolored lighting. Well, actually no, they don't lookanything like this, this is a treated shot.A hospital actually looks like this. Lots of the colors quite bright, oftenthey've got friendly, warm colors on the walls.But why do we constantly see hospitals portrayed with these green colors,especially in the walls or on the bed linen.Well, it might be because we're used to seeing these sort of colors in hospital onthe gowns. Where you've got lots of bluey green orblue gowns worn by either the patients or the surgeons.

And this works remarkably well for drama because, these color gowns reflect nicelythe skin tone, they contrast against the skin tone.They're complimentary colors, they come from the opposite side of the color wheel.So, we tend to get these colors in hospital dramas or settings within ahospital quite often. I'll just jump back to the first clip.So, if you wanted to recreate this look, I'll just reset Colorista and open up thecolor wheels. You could increase the tension and thedrama by increasing the shadows, decreasing the saturation and then movingthe colors towards this tealy blue. Change the mood with the midtones, andthen you change the tension and the drama quite significantly.

Here we've got these darker shadows with a slight tint to teal, balanced against areally bright set of highlights. You can tell as a viewer, that this is adramatic scene. What if you wanted to have a reasonablyaccurate look and reflect things that hospitals are known for, which is theirclinical nature and sterile environment? Let's disable Colorista and open up Looks /g.One way you can do this is by grabbing a Three-Way Color Corrector and slightlyexaggerating the shadows. So, you've got a nice, crisp contrastbetween the shadows and the highlights. Of course because we're operating RGPspace in Looks, every time we increase the contrast, we get a slight boost in the saturation.

So, I might in this case just slightly tweak the saturation down so, its notoverly colorful. I'm going for a more naturalistic look andthe other tool I like using for this sort of effect in Looks is the Pop tool, whichlives over in the post section. This increases the local contrast, ithelps define sharp edges in an image without increasing the saturation.So, increasing the Pop to say something like 50, helps define these edges.

So, here's the before and the after. It removes any slight haze in the imageand gives extra definition. So, let's have a look back in the timeline.Here's the difference, here's the before and after.Before and after. So, this isn't an especially dramaticlook, but it's clean and it's clinical and it's got defined lines.

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Q: Do I need any plug-ins or additional software to perform the color grading work shown in this course?

A: This course demonstrates techniques that will work in any color grading software, including the built-in 3-way color corrector tools in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Avid Media Composer. However, the author uses some plug-ins for Premiere Pro in this course. While you can still get similar results with other tools, you may wish to try the same tools used in the course. If so, you can install Colorista II and Looks by Magic Bullet. There are free trial versions of these plug-ins available at the Red Giant website at https://www.redgiant.com/downloads/trial-versions/registration/magic-bullet-colorista-ii/.

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